Category Archives: out in the fields

“Murphy’s the name. Siring’s the game.” Well, that’s what he might have said if Murphy the 10-year-old Berkshire Boar who lives about half an hour from Moons Green had bothered to introduce himself to us. Murphy belongs to Jane Howard, … Continue reading →

“Fancy lunch in France sometime?” asked Bill, definitely not a founding member of Francophiles-Are-Us. “Why not,” I responded, dreaming immediately of Alain Chapel’s truffle-stuffed chicken tightly enveloped in a pig’s bladder and poached in a rich chicken broth. We decided … Continue reading →

Horticulture is really Farmer Phil and His wife Trish’s arena although in recent years both Bill and his wife Ingrid have been making some serious inroads with the introduction of the serious, fenced-off vegetable garden out in the pig field … Continue reading →

Here at the smallholding at Moons Green, it’s already earned a number of nicknames; “the pink knocker’, “The Moons Green Mosque”, “Bill’s folly”. But make no mistake, Bill’s bread oven is not just a very visible landmark on the farm, … Continue reading →

The old ways work best Charlie’s a young and spirited 71. Ron’s 65 and a former gamekeeper in these parts. Add it up and they’ve been practitioners of the art of using ferrets to hunt rabbits for more than 125 … Continue reading →